Blame Engadget (Surprise surprise!). They wrote a scathing article on it after the anandtech.com review claimed that it was lacked GPS (Which was later corrected in the anandtech review). Rather than Engadget updating the article and saying that it was not true, they tried to brush it under the rug and flat out deleted the article. The article wasn't up very long at all.

But unfortunately in this day & age every news article is copy/pasted through hundreds of sites. In this case at least 10 different news sites copied the article word for word.

So what? He can't say what he wants? Engadget was in fact WRONG. Just because it is Engadget that they shouldn't oblige to common courtesy? Please, get over it. They should have apologized and just corrected the article -- not delete the whole thing. It's exactly the reason BECAUSE a lot of people (like YOU) take anything Engadget says as fact that they should have just corrected themselves.

Frankly, I find it very unprofessional to just wrongly accuse a product of lacking a standard functionality and then just to wipe away all evidence.

Does anyone know who posted that article so I could avoid anything they write from now on? Tasteless and pathetic. Own up to your mistakes! This is another reason why Engadget is a shred of what it used to be.

UPDATE EDIT: Okay it makes sense now that I've read other responses. Map data needs to be cached using an Internet connection. GPS will function as normal without Internet connection after map data loaded. Asus responded not very clearly though. So I suppose if we had a Navigation program with map data preloaded on SD card we wouldn't need the Internet connection. Too bad Garmin Street Pilot is not available for Android.

"like all WiFi based GPS devices"....hu?
"login [to reestablish connection]"....WTF?
The Eee Pad is a WiFi device [with GPS], as opposed to phones which have a mobile network to fall back on. You need to 'login' (aka, connect to WiFi) to establish a data connection for apps to get the data they need, which in most cases will be the map data.

If you were to pull open an app that either [A] gives you your GPS coordinates or [B] has map data locally on the device, you would have no issues whatsoever.

"or tether [for persistent connection"....ya ok whatever this means
That just means to tether to a device that has a connection. (Eg, WiFi tether from your phone)

OK. I've updated the post and removed the official comment, because you're right, it didn't help clear it up. Point is: GPS works. If you have a question, the answer most likely will be, "Yes, GPS works." :p

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